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A Monumental Mason in Seventy Years Ago
Last month Ursula Sarsfield was meeting a customer in Vauxhall in North Liverpool. She was astonished to be introduced to the clients neighbour who told Ursula she remembered her grandfather James, a monumental mason who founded Sarsfield Memorials in 1947. The lady...
Celtic Cross Memorials
Some of the grandest monuments in some of Liverpool's cemeteries for example are Celtic Cross memorials of the 19th Century. One is in Toxteth Park Cemetery marking the grave of shipping merchant Samuel Graves, Liverpool's Mayor in 1861 and later representing...
Ogee Headstones Special Offer May 2018
Ogee headstones are amongst the most popular designs for memorials today due their size, low maintenance and easy customisation. Falling well within the size guidelines that many cemeteries now implement ogee headstones are made of polished black granite. This...
Unsafe Memorials Are Owners Responsibility
Unsafe memorials can cause serious injury or even death if they topple over. Many wrongly assume that in such incidences the local authority is responsible, but in reality it is actually the grave owner who has to accept liability. Two months ago Liverpool city...
Sir Ken Dodd
Sir Ken Dodd, the last of the great British music hall comedians, has been laid to rest in the family grave at Liverpool's Allerton Cemetery. Dodd was born in Thomas Lane, Knotty Ash in 1927. The son of a coal merchant, he attended the Holt School (now Childwall...
Gertude Langton – St Margaret’s School Liverpool
St Margaret's School in Liverpool, or St Margaret's Church of England Academy to give it its correct title nowadays, has been in existence for 139 years. One of its major benefactors was Gertrude Langton, the daughter of a leading Liverpool financier Gertrude was born...